What stands between youth and decent jobs?

More young people are staying in school instead of entering the labour market at an early age. That’s good news. Yet more than 200 million young people are either unemployed or have a job but live in poverty.

Explore this InfoStory to learn more about global employment trends for young people and what stands between them and a decent job.

School enrolment is on an upswing

With more young people in school, fewer youth are working or looking for a job. This means that the youth labour pool is shrinking.

While the youth population grew by 139 million between 1997 and 2017, the youth labour force shrank by 58.7 million.